.28 caliber. 31" wedge-retained octagon barrel. SN: NSN. Browned finish, brass furniture, full-length hardwood stock. Diminutive small bore rifle measures 46.5" in overall length with a 13" length of pull. Barrel engraved "B A Davenport". Altered from flint to percussion with a replacement single screw percussion lock that is unmarked and equipped with double set triggers. Barrel with drum conversion bolster. Dovetailed fixed semi-buckhorn rear sight and dovetailed German silver front sight blade with brass base. Rifle mounted with engraved brass hardware including a lovely open work four-piece patchbox with small daisy head finial, with release (missing) in toe plate of stock. Brass finger extension spur triggerguard, brass buttplate and open work toe plate, lightly engraved geometric brass sideplate, 2.375" brass nose cap. Stock with raised cheek rest missing a brass or German silver starburst decoration, wrist with German silver thumb plate. Stock with decorative incised lines around periphery of but and along forearm. B.A.Davenport is not listed in Sellers' American Gunsmiths and could not be located in any other readily available references. Provenance:The Collection of Larry Ness Condition: Good. Barrel retains some of an old reapplied brown finish with scattered surface oxidation and pitting, particularly around breech and bolster area. Lock needs mechanical attention to function correctly. Bore dark, dirty, pitted but retaining visible rifling. Toe plate loose and bent, patchbox release missing. Stock with scattered bumps, dings and mars, som wood loss around the pins and wedges and gapping at the lock. Stock with wood loss behind the bolster and with a repaired crack at the tang.
.28 caliber. 31" wedge-retained octagon barrel. SN: NSN. Browned finish, brass furniture, full-length hardwood stock. Diminutive small bore rifle measures 46.5" in overall length with a 13" length of pull. Barrel engraved "B A Davenport". Altered from flint to percussion with a replacement single screw percussion lock that is unmarked and equipped with double set triggers. Barrel with drum conversion bolster. Dovetailed fixed semi-buckhorn rear sight and dovetailed German silver front sight blade with brass base. Rifle mounted with engraved brass hardware including a lovely open work four-piece patchbox with small daisy head finial, with release (missing) in toe plate of stock. Brass finger extension spur triggerguard, brass buttplate and open work toe plate, lightly engraved geometric brass sideplate, 2.375" brass nose cap. Stock with raised cheek rest missing a brass or German silver starburst decoration, wrist with German silver thumb plate. Stock with decorative incised lines around periphery of but and along forearm. B.A.Davenport is not listed in Sellers' American Gunsmiths and could not be located in any other readily available references. Provenance:The Collection of Larry Ness Condition: Good. Barrel retains some of an old reapplied brown finish with scattered surface oxidation and pitting, particularly around breech and bolster area. Lock needs mechanical attention to function correctly. Bore dark, dirty, pitted but retaining visible rifling. Toe plate loose and bent, patchbox release missing. Stock with scattered bumps, dings and mars, som wood loss around the pins and wedges and gapping at the lock. Stock with wood loss behind the bolster and with a repaired crack at the tang.
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